Originally posted by silent thunder
OK, here is a point the OP brings up that I'm still confused about: the relationship (if any) between the
Emerald Tablet of Hermes and the Emerald Tablets
of Thoth .
Is there a link between the two and a reality behind the second?
[edit on 9/16/09 by silent thunder]
Like you write: there is proof of the Emerald Tablet of Hermes (Tabula Smaragdina) and there is NO proof the Emerald Tablets of Thoth have ever truly
existed.
It can very well be that Doreal, who was very much into the Occult & Hermetic readings, has heard / read about the Hermes Tablet and thus by going in
trance wrote his vision on it giving it a slighty different name. But ... this is speculation only.
I like the texts of the Toth Tablets even when they are written by someome like Doreal. There simply is something about this text even knowing it's
not an ancient text.
The text on the Tabula Smaragdina is:
"TABULA SMARAGDINA
“True it is, without falsehood, certain and most true. That which is below is like to that which is above, and that which is above is like to that
which is below, to accomplish the miracles of one thing.
And as all things were by the contemplation of one; so all things arose from this one thing by adaptation. Its father is the Sun, its mother is the
Moon. The wind carried it in its belly. The Earth is its nurse. It is the father of all the per¬fection of the whole world. Its power is complete,
if it be cast on to earth.
You shall separate earth from fire, the subtle from the gross, smoothly, with great sagacity. It rises from earth to heaven, and descends again from
heaven to earth, and receives the force from things that are above and from things that are below. hus you will possess the glory of the whole world,
and all obscurity will flee from you.
This thing is the strong fortitude of all strength. Because it will overcome each refined, sub¬tle thing and it will penetrate each substance. n
this way the world was created. From this marvellous adaptations will arise, of which this is the manner. For this reason I am called Hermes
Trismegistus, because I possess three parts of the wisdom of the whole world. That which I had to say about the operation of Sol is completed.”
source (PDF file) :
www.spamula.net...
In the book Michael Maier’s Atalanta Fugiens: Sources of an Alchemical Book of Emblems, (my source, also, for the images reproduced here),
H.M.E. de Jong traces the origins of many of the book’s mottoes and images, and shows its extensive reliance on previous works, and its place
embedded in a tradition that has since faded to near-invisibility. The first emblem in the book, for instance, which is also the first of the images
reproduced here, draws on a text that was perceived as one of the oldest and most authoritative alchemical pronouncements, the so-called Tabula
Smaragdina (Emerald Tablet), whose authorship was attributed to the mythical Hermes Trismegistus